Early career research

Academic life is rife with everyday choices that can sap your bandwidth. Here’s why this is exhausting and how to ease the load

A guide for academics to using social media as a powerful tool to share and amplify their work and build professional networks, by David Riley

A University of Adelaide team on what can be done to enhance community for higher degree by research students and how to ensure they see this culture from the outside

Strategies for writing effective abstracts for conference and research papers

How to shape a mentoring scheme to help graduate teaching assistants develop their instructional practice and gain professional qualifications

Key considerations for researchers when choosing an academic publisher and preparing their pitch

To answer the common question posed by researchers, ‘how can I improve my academic writing?’, Anne Wilson outlines three simple steps that can help

Instead of hiding from failure in shame and despair, and on the way to normalising it, we should learn how to better narrate it, says Lucas Lixinski

How to build a supportive community of practice and peer learning through the simple practice of meeting online to ‘shut up and write’

The pursuit of an academic career can mean moving to a different country. Here, Federica Di Biase shares lessons for early-career researchers who want to move to Sweden or have already done so